Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cram"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cram \Cram\ (kr[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crammed} (kr[a^]md);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Cramming}.] [AS. crammian to cram; akin to
Icel. kremja to squeeze, bruise, Sw. krama to press. Cf.
{Cramp}.]
1. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in
thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to
fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket;
to cram a room with people.
Their storehouses crammed with grain. --Shak.
He will cram his brass down our throats. --Swift.
2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
Children would be freer from disease if they were
not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers.
--Locke.
Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame
things. --Shak.
3. To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing
or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a
pupil is crammed by his tutor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cram \Cram\, v. i.
1. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
Gluttony . . . . Crams, and blasphemes his feeder.
--Milton.
2. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an
examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing
or study. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cram \Cram\, n.
1. The act of cramming.
2. Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an
examination. [Colloq.]
3. (Weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing
through each dent or split of the reed.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cram
v 1: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
{jam}, {jampack}, {ram}, {chock up}, {wad}, {pack}]
2: put something somewhere so that the space is completely
filled; "cram books into the suitcase"
3: eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey" [syn: {fill
up}, {fill}, {stuff}, {jam}]
4: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on
my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: {grind away},
{drum}, {bone up}, {swot}, {get up}, {mug up}, {swot up},
{bone}]
5: prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam
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